Tag: writing
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August 11, 2006 09:29 AM EDT --
I think I could write anywhere. You could throw me naked in a meat locker turned to 42 degrees, and I would scrape words in the frost on the floor. It wouldn't be fun. Probably read like frozen crap, . . .
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September 20, 2007 01:34 AM EDT --
I perused and read this site for the last month, being the inquisitive and curious type. Yesterday, I said to myself what the heck; these nice and friendly people will appreciate and like you; join up . . .
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September 19, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
Thank you all.
I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you who took the time out of your busy schedules to read so many of the wonderful stories in this contest. Many had to step . . .
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January 28, 2007 02:15 PM EST --
Our daughter Elizabeth came to me five months ago today. I was just coming in with the eggs. She had just finished washing the breakfast dishes. My husband Ezra was out in the barn with our sons . . .
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February 19, 2007 01:15 PM EST --
I propose to publish a series of pieces that together I will call Guidelines for Writing Fiction. In this, the first in the series, I will discuss point of view (POV).
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July 19, 2007 07:59 AM EDT --
Good morning! Today's Writing Essential has gone to the dogs... and cats, birds, bunnies, pigs, horses! The theme is Animalia, and you are invited to post your short stories and poems about animals. . . .
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June 24, 2006 05:55 PM EDT --
After finishing my own laundry this morning, I set to work on my daughter's. It needed doing. It's not as if she can't do it during this, her week off. But I wasn't doing anything else, . . .
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December 11, 2006 04:22 PM EST --
I just received my December issue of Adoption Today. My story, Accidental Joy, is on page 56, along with a photo of me and the gang! This is my first print magazine byline! Yay!
I want to thank Gather . . .
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August 02, 2007 09:10 PM EDT --
I find as a writer, that an old dictionary is a great tool.
In fact, the older the dictionary, the better.
Now I have two very old dictionaries that I use, but I have others that are not so old, and . . .
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August 22, 2006 09:15 AM EDT --
(Originally Published in The Providence Sunday Journal 4/27/97)
I once had an English teacher, a soft spoken lady, who in a one-on one dead-serious heart-to-heart talk warned me to avoid cliches like . . .
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May 29, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
I am looking for reccommendations among the published fiction and poetry writers here at Gather. I've been on the search for a genuine online writer's circle, off and on for some years now. During . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:00 PM EDT --
Different foods push memory to my surface. Polish dumplings filled with mashed potatoes and garlic remind me of my gramma. Cinnamon bread means Mom. And ice cream, oh ice cream pulls me into the start . . .
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December 13, 2006 12:45 PM EST --
What makes an artist create or better still what makes an artist create gloriously?
I was good scholar at school but I came alive when it was that part of our English classes when we were asked to write . . .
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February 03, 2007 09:06 AM EST --
My youngest son, 9, turns 10 in a few days. He woke me an hour ago.
"I can't sleep."
He tossed his art supplies on the bed and crawled in after them. Graphite pencils, rubber eraser, . . .
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May 19, 2007 07:56 AM EDT --
I stand amidst the hens and the ducks, in the dirt yard, transfixed by the leafy cherry tree. It’s August and its fruit are big, deep red and about the most desirable thing I have seen. The mid-morning . . .
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October 20, 2008 10:06 PM EDT --
I should preface this by saying I really don't know where it came from. I sat down tonight with the intention of writing. This is what emerged.
She strode down the gravel road, eyes on the horizon, . . .
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September 01, 2006 03:03 PM EDT --
You know who you are
Sitting at the Piano Bar
All gussied up to strike a pose
If power people walk the row
It wasn't enough to invite yourself
It wasn't enough to delight yourself
In vulgar displays . . .
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February 19, 2008 01:13 AM EST --
Mona Lisa Brown propagates
two-tone spider plants, talking
them through rebirth, through
re-becoming again a whole of
what they were cut from -
for they will grow whole
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May 16, 2007 11:08 AM EDT --
Meta-writing is a process whereby you write down your 3 most pressing problems. Study them for a minute and then write about one of them. After writing the problem down, take the paper and . . .
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October 19, 2007 06:09 PM EDT --
To a Rose
Oh Rose as bright as yonder sun,
Which lights the world’s life never done,
And shows to me thy radiance true,
When shown reflected off of you.
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